About me

Sau-Chin Chen
Associate professor, Department of Human Development and Psychology
Tzu-Chi University

Center for Open Science, Ambassador
Psychological Science Accelerator, Fellow, Assistant Director
scchen.com

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Issues

• Mental Simulation: Our minds simulate what we are reading.
• Match Advantage: Faster responses to the object pictures which are compatible with our simulations.

Properties	Example	\(Chone's\ d_z\)
Shape		.27 ~ .31
Color		.20 ~ .48
Size		.07 ~ .27
Orientation		.07 ~ .13

Source: Zwaan and Pecher (2012); de Koning et al. (2017b); de Koning et al. (2017a)

Why test orientation effects across languages

• Inconsistent findings among languages
• Mysterious implication: Language Comprehension X Actions
• Update researchers’ scope

Why the orientation effect has the smallest effect size?

• Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic
• Only small objects were employed in the investigation of orientation effect
• Diversity among languages
• Particular task demand

Registered Report

Investigate match advantage of object orientation between …

• Large objects vs. Small objects: crane vs. cane
• Tasks Picture Verification vs. Pictures Comparison vs. Picture Naming
• Languages: English vs. Dutch(Dutch; English) vs. Chinese

Pre-analysis for sample size estimation

• Estimate maximal sample size in terms of past results and .80 power
• Decide Bayes Factor for stopping data collection

Findings

About picture verification

About picture identification

About picture naming

• No language group shows match advantage of object orientation.
• Naming small objects was faster than naming large objects.

Conclusion

• Orientation effects shifted with object size and task demands
• Moderator of languages

Why PSA accept this project

• Timing
• Significance
  Members share the interest with mine
  Accumulated evidence would provoke new research topic
• Feasibility
  Members could run this project with the limited resource
  Members could afford the estimated sample size

Confirmation and Exploration

• Language Diversity: American English shows a robust orientation effect
• Embodied Cognition: Extended studies showed small effect size

• How would language alter match advantage of object orientation?

Theory	Evidence

Registered Report

source: Moshontz et al. (2018)

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Advantages (for sciences)

• Investigate psychological effects which could be diverse among cultures, langauges, societies, and any human traits.
• Accumulate the reproducible data in science literature.

Challenges (for local sites/psych labs in various locations)

• Limited resources ~ lack of financial/psychological supports from the affiliation/government.
• Incompatible with current research interest
• A need to keep members’ skills up to date

Challenges (for local sites/psych labs in various locations)

• Motivation to promote open science
• Access to non-student samples
• Data management compatible with collaborative protocol

Opportunities (for local site)

• Explore new research topics
• Share experience
• Upgrade scientific scope

Opportunities (for local site)

• Be a part of big replication/innovative projects
• Learning new tools
• Co-authoring papers (publications in prestigious journals)

Opportunities (for local site)

• Be a part of testing psychological projects on non-WEIRD populations and thus engaging in improving the field
• New collaboration opportunities
• Meeting scientists with similar interests from all over the world

Opportunities (for local site)

• Contributing to huge datasets for future meta-science studies
• Using PSA’s excellent translation resources

Thoughts and Recommendations

• Do what you like
• Improve your standard of research quality
• Think about the global potential of your local study